GreenTracker| Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams from the University of Leicester Department of Geology; Will Steffen, Director of the Australian National University’s Climate Change Institute and Paul Crutzen the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist of Mainz University argue that Earth has entered a new age of geological time: the Anthropocene Epoch. via Science Daily

Human activity including massive population growth, sprawling megacities and increased use of fossil fuels have changed the planet in ways that will alter the planet for millions of years.

Currently, the worldwide geological community is formally considering whether the Anthropocene should join the Jurassic, Cambrian and other more familiar units like the Halocene our current geological age, on the Geological Time Scale.

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